VITAS Healthcare
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Riverside, CA

Posted 28 days ago

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Job Description

VITAS Healthcare is the nation’s leading provider of end of life care. We provide our employees opportunities for professional growth, advancement and competitive benefits.

The Team Manager is the leader of the Patient Care Team and that member of the team whose function is to: supervise, evaluate and coordinate the various component members of the interdisciplinary team; assure continuity of care from admission to discharge or transfer to bereavement; serve as patient advocate and coordinator for other social service and health care providers in the community who are involved in the care of the team’s patients; assume responsibility for the maintenance of patient records from intake through discharge or transfer to bereavement.

Patient Care Services

Directs all patient care services for the team, including volunteer and bereavement, and ensures that services are rendered as integrated components of the interdisciplinary plan of care.

Reviews information on all pending patient admissions, all new admissions (assessments and history) and “alive” discharges to assure that eligibility and appropriateness criteria are met.

Collaborates with both the team physician and the attending physician regarding palliative care measures for pain and symptom management.

Assures complete and accurate data and documentation are available to make recertification decisions and further assures that those decisions are made on a timely basis.

Monitors the type and level of team services provided (staffing, medications, HME, supplies, level of care changes to inpatient and continuous care, etc.) to assure that they are appropriate and responsive to patient/family needs and expectations.

Manages the team schedule and assures coordination of services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to all patients on the team.

Facilitates team meeting, assuring interdisciplinary input into the update and revision of the plan of care in concert with the changing needs and expectations of the patient and family.

Participates in on-call rotation.

Benefits Include

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance

Pre-tax healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

401(k) plan with numerous investment options and generous company match

Cancer and/or critical illness benefit

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program

Legal Insurance

Roadside Assistance

Affinity Program

Qualifications

Reliable transportation with appropriate license and insurance coverage for driver and passengers.

Private telephone in home.

Knowledge of the principles and practices of primary medical and nursing care, with at least a working knowledge of oncologic nursing and palliative care.

Basic understanding of the interpersonal dynamics operative within the working relationships of an interdisciplinary health care team, and knowledge of the process of dying and bereavement.

Working knowledge of VITAS information system (Vx) and the ability to utilize management reports.

Two years successful supervisory experience or equivalent in a health care organization.

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred.

Current and valid R.N. License to practice in the state where the VITAS program is located.

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VITAS Healthcare

VITAS® Healthcare, a pioneer and leader in the hospice movement since 1978, is the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, VITAS operates 44 hospice programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia. (Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin). VITAS, which has evolved from its founding as a volunteer organization by a United Methodist minister and a registered nurse, today employs 11,669 professionals who care for terminally ill patients daily, primarily in the patients’ homes, but also in the company’s 34 inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities/residential care facilities for the elderly. At the conclusion of the fourth quarter of 2015, VITAS reported an average daily census of 15,671; VITAS served more than 80,000 patients throughout all of 2015.

Contact Info

7888 Mission Grove Parkway SouthRiverside, CA 92508

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